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A Note on Road Kills


The following amendments should be made to: Page 89, Column 1, List of animals killed . . . Last line; 1 mammal every 35 km should read 31 km. Page 89, Column 2, Lines 8 to 19 should be amended as follows; The results . . . 30 kilometres. Magpies were the commonest animal found dead, being 36% of the total killed in spring. However, the autumn count of dead magpies was only 19% of the total at that time. When both surveys were combined magpies were 45 % of the birds killed. Vestjens found for the whole of his survey magpies were 37% of the birds killed. While .....autumn. However, in the autumn there were more mammal predators and scavengers killed. Perhaps .........animals.

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